Baby born at 13 lbs. 10 oz. sets hospital record

PITTSBURGH -- Meet Isaac Hall, a newborn at West Penn Hospital. Although he looks small, this little guy is a big deal.

"It was definitely unexpected. When you first hear it, you just want to make sure the baby is healthy," Michelle Hall, new mom.

Isaac is healthy in every sense of the word - medically, and a healthy 13 pounds, 10 ounces when he was born to the Ellwood City, Pa., couple. This big baby entered the world via C-section, fitting into the clothes of a typical 6 month old, WTAE-TV reports.

"We didn't have a lot of newborn clothes, but we'll probably have a lot of clothes that don't fit him. As Michelle's pregnancy progressed, she and her husband Brad knew their baby was big.

"We knew the baby was going to be large, as large as this no. But on the same side, still too large to deliver safely any other way," said Dr. Andrew Sword, OBGYN, West Penn Hospital.

Let's put it this way, Issac's 13 lbs. 10 oz. makes him almost twice the size of an average newborn. More impressive, he was even delivered a week early.

Once we had the ultrasounds and the size and everything, they decided to have a planned C-section," said Michelle.

She didn't need an utrasound, though, to know Isaac was going to be one big boy.

It was a really big belly, very heavy," she said.

Isaac arrived tipping the scales, and breaking records at West Penn Hospital

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"When I polled all the pediatricians from this hospital, some of them whom date from the early 1980s, there's never been a baby on record that's this size," Dr. Sword said.

When babies are born this big, there is often an underlying health issue with the mother or child. That is not the case here. Isaac is one healthy bundle of joy.